Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune:
Buttrey Aims For A Middle Way On Medicaid
A Great Falls Republican lawmaker debuts this week a Medicaid compromise bill that may be the best positioned to win this session’s health care debate. Sen. Ed Buttrey’s Montana HELP (Health and Economic Livelihood Partnership) Plan combines health care with economic development. The plan takes federal money to stretch Medicaid to cover 70,000 Montanans — the equivalent of the populations of Great Falls, Havre and White Sulphur Springs — who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid and too little to be eligible for subsidies on insurance through the health care exchange. That is coupled with opportunities for job training, education and help finding a job match. (Inbody, 3/8)

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